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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Baz Luhrmann

I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way
There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Directors Hollywood Speak
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Cinema Excitement Needs
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Clean Shows Stories
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everything Make Personally Start
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Acceptance Cities Multicultural

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

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